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Once To Sinai - The Further Pilgrimage Of Friar Felix Fabri
Once To Sinai The Further Pilgrimage Of Friar Felix Fabri Author:H F M Prescott ONCE TO SINAI The further pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri H. F. M. PRESCOTT New York 1958 THE MA C1V1 ILL AN COMPANY Acknowledgments I wish to thank all those who have helped me in the preparation of this book, among whom are many of the members of Staff of the Bodleian Library, the Ashmolean Museum and the Griffiths Institute in the Univer sity... more » of Oxford, and of these, in particular, Mr. I. Robertson and Mr. A. D. H. Bivar for unfailing kindness and interest in my problems. My thanks are also due to Miss Cecilia Ady, Miss Olga Bickley, Dr. Barbara Reynolds, Miss Frances Williams, Professor Paul Kahle and the late Professor Pope. For their kindness during my visit to Jugoslavia I thank Drs. Fiskovic and Grade and Signora Vernazza. I owe very much to Mr. G. W. Murray for his help in the interpretation of Felix Fabris account of the desert journey, and for permission to use his map as the basis of that on p. 38. My debt to Mrs. D. M. Mack and to Mr. Malcolm Letts is greater than all other I can only ask them to accept my thanks. Lastly I wish to express my gratitude to my Publishers for their patience, and to Mrs. Millar for much help in connection with the illustrations. Contents Chapter Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7 Part One Jerusalem to Gaza I INTRODUCTORY 17 H THE LAST OF THE HOLY LAND 23 Part Two Gaza to Mount Sinai m THE SCHOOL OF THE DESERT 39 IV THE DESERT JOURNEY 59 Part Three Mount Sinai and the Monastery of St. Katherine V THE MONKS OF ST. KATHERINE 77 VI THE MONASTERY, THE MOUNTAINS AND 84 THE SHRINES Part Four Mount Sinai to Egypt VH MORE OF THE DESERT 99 Part Five Egypt VHI THE GARDEN OF BALM 115 IX AMONG THE MAMLUKS 124 X SEEING CAIRO 139 XI CAIRO, THE PASSING SHOW 155 Xn GOING DOWN THE NILE 173 xm ALEXANDRIA THE PUBLIC MARKET OF BOTH WORLDS 190 Chapter Page Part Six Alexandria to Venice XV ON BOARD THE SPICE SHIPS 221 XVI WINTER VOYAGE 229 XVH UP THE ADRIATIC 239 Part Seven Venice to Ulm XVm VENICE OF THE MERCHANTS 257 XIX THE WAY HOME 268 XX VALEDICTORY 277 BIBLIOGRAPHY 287 NOTES 291 INDEX 305 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Plates Facing page 1. PTOLEMY THE GEOGRAPHER FROM THE CARVING 1468-1474 BY JORG SYRLIN IN THE CATHEDRAL AT ULM. Reproduced by permission of the Stadtarchiv at IJlm Frontispiece 2. THE TOMB OF BERNHARD VON BREYDENBACH IN THE CATHEDRAL AT MAINZ. Reproduced by permission of the Dom-und Diozesanmuseum f Mainz. Photograph Ludwig Richter 64 3. SAINT KATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA. Reproduced by permission of the Stadtarchiv at Ulm 80 4. CAIRO, 1512. Reception of the Venetian Ambassador at Cairo, 1512. School of Gentile Bellini. Reproduced by permission of the Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques, Paris, from the picture in The Louvre 160 5. GREECE AND THE AEGEAN IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Portolan chart by Nicolo de Pasaualin. Egerton MSS. 73, 23 b. By permission of the Trustees of the British Museum 224 6. VENETIANS ENJOYING A SPECTACLE. Detail from Mansuetis t Miracole della Croce 240 7. VENICE, 1500. Fromjacopo Barbaras Map of Venice in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees 272 8. VIEW AND PLAN OF ULM IN 1493. Reproduced by permission of the Stadtarchiv Ulm 278 Maps and Illustrations in the text Page GAZA TO MOUNT SINAI map. Based upon Mr. G. W. Murrays map of Felix Fabris desert journey in the Geographical Journal, September 1956, by kind permission of Mr. Murray and the Royal Geographical Society 38 PROFILE OF MOUNT SINAI. From Jacques de Veronas Liber Peregrina tionis, 1420 88 THE BALSAM PLANT. From De Pknti Aegyptis ... by Prosper Alpinus, Venice, 1592 119 II 12 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLAN OF CAIRO. From the original by Paul Walther, 14.92, in the Bayerische State Archives at Neuberg-on-the-Donau. Reproduced by permission of the Bay e rische Stadtarchiv 144-5 VIEW OF ALEXANDRIA. From Pierre Belons Portraits dOyseaux, Animaux, etc. . . , d Arabic, Paris, 1552 198 ALEXANDRIA TO VENICE map. Reproduced by permission of Eyre Spottiswoodc Ltd...« less